To tackle Qatars healthcare crisis Hamad Medical Corporation HMC has unveiled a new ambitious 15year master plan that includes doubling the number of hospital beds and operating theaters in the country and tripling car parking provisions by 2030
Speaking to reporters today officials said much of th..

High Wood Health a consortium of Laing ORourke Aberdeen UK Infrastructure Partners a fund managed by Aberdeen Asset Management Ryder Architecture and Serco concluded the deal with NHS Dumfries Galloway for a new acute district general hospital for the region
Enabling works for the hospital which i..

Its the busiest day for takeovers in the healthcare industry
UnitedHealth Group Inc struck Mondays largest purchase 132 billion for drugbenefit manager Catamaran Corp Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd made a 31 billion splash back into dealmaking with Auspex Pharmaceuticals Inc Horizon Pharma Plc..

Bayer HealthCare Bayer has expanded its collaboration with the Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT and Harvard University to include cardiovascular genomics and drug discovery The goal of this new part of the alliance is to leverage insights from human genetics to help creat..

For a generation doctors in New York Citys economically depressed neighborhoods have been the ugly ducklings of the medical hierarchy Many are foreign born and foreign trained serve mostly minority and immigrant patients and often run highvolume practices to compensate for Medicaids low rate of paym..

With painstaking effort a group of Chicago hospitals has managed to cut by half the number of infections caused by an especially deadly type of superbug Now US health officials want that kind of campaign to go national
The White House on Friday told the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..

Google39s search for big new industries for its technology has led it to the operating room with the internet giant signing a robotics deal with JJ
Google39s search for big new industries for its technology has led it to the operating room
The search giant is pooling resources and intellectual pro..

Fortis Healthcare announced that the Board of Fortis Healthcare International a step down subsidiary of the Company based out of Singapore has decided to disinvest 100 shareholding in Fortis Healthcare Singapore which holds and operates Fortis Surgical Hospital to Concord Medical Services Internati..

Georgia Republican Governor Nathan Deal will sign legislation legalizing a nonsmoking form of medical marijuana for patients with seizure disorders and seven other medical conditions the governor39s spokesman said on Thursday
Deal plans to wait until after the legislative session ends next week bef..

Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton is scheduled to open April 1
The 100bed hospital is the state39s first netnew hospital meaning not a relocation or replacement in almost 20 years according to the health system that manages the facility Gainesville Gabased Northeast Georgia Health System..

Medical device startup Cardialen raises 15 million from investors
Cardialen a medical device company based out of the BioGenerator in the Cortex innovation district has raised 152 million from a group of investors
The investor group includes the BioGenerator Cultivation Capital Life Sciences fund ..

President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he was ready to sign bipartisan legislation to change the formula for reimbursing Medicare physicians while the US Senate39s top Democrat appeared open to allowing a vote on the measure
Both developments signified growing support for a bipartisan effort to a..

Private healthcare provider Qualitas Healthcare Corp Bhd which has temporarily halted its listing plan on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia is currently in talks to acquire RadLinkAsia Pte Ltd a Singaporebased diagnostic and molecular imaging service provider sources said
RadLink which is a unit of..

Semma Therapeutics seeks to turn success in stem research lab into a way to encourage insulin production
Anew Cambridge biotech will be working on a treatment using stem cells that could let children and adults with Type 1 diabetes do something their bodies currently cannot produce their own insuli..

Researchers from the Origins of Cancer group have opened the door to a new treatment for prostate cancer which can starve cancer cells
The breakthrough was discovered by a team led by Associate Professor Jeff Holst at Sydney39s Centenary Institute which identified three specific nutrients that pros..

The cost and regulatory pressures that are forcing consolidation within the larger health care industry are also causing consolidation in the highly fragmented hospice and homecare industries a phenomenon now playing out in Pittsburgh
Last week UPMC announced it would be bringing Mt Lebanons Famil..

Gov John Hickenlooper on Monday announced the creation of a state office that will lead the effort to coordinate primary care and behavioral health care throughout Colorado
The State Innovation Model SIM Office will in conjunction with the State Innovation Model Advisory Board use a 65 million fede..

Howard University Hospital reported a 58 million loss in fiscal 2014 dragging Howard University into the red for the year a university treasurers report shows
Without the hospital the university alone had generated a profit of 13 million for the fiscal year With the hospital39s 58 million loss Howa..